Insect-guard.



F. J. RUSH.

INSECT GUABD'.

APPLCATION FILED DEC. 7. 1914.

1 .l @4 1 90 Patented Dee. 14, 1915.

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TNTTE @TATE@ PATENT @FFTQE FELIX J'. BUSH, OF NEW YORK, 1\T. Y.

INSECT-GUAED Application fied December 7, 1914.

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Be it known that I, FELIX J. BUSH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Insect-Guards, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to insect guards and particularly to devices calculated to prevent the insects from climbing table legs and the legs of other articles of furniture.

Among the objects of my invention may be noted the following: to provide means by which inseots will be prevented from climbing the legs of furniture; to provide means which will act as a deterrent to the progress of inseots in attempting to climb the legs of furniture; and to provide a simple, compact, strong device which is cheap to produce and quite durable for accomplishing the purposes stated.

With the above objects in view and others which will be detailed during the course of this description, my invention consists in the parts, features, elements and the combinations thereof hereinafter described and claimed.

Tn order that my invention may be clearly understood I have provided drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower portion of the leg of an article of furniture with my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a perspective of one form of ny device; Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of the structure of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a section Similar to Fig. 3 showing another form of my inventi on.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral l indicates the leg of an article of furniture such as a bed which, as usual, is, or may be, provided with a caster 2 of ordinary construction. The trim of the lower portion of the leg is indicated by 3.

According to my invention the guard comprises the member 4 which, in the form of Figs. 2 and 3, is substantially cylindrical and made in the form of a ring having in its inner periphery an angular groove 5, in which is set a diaphragm or central member 6 provided with an aperture 7. The member 4 is preferably made of glass or other material having sinilar characteristios; that is to say, a material which is, or may be, provided with a perfeotly Specfication of Letters Patent.

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Seral No. 875,764.

smooth surface alfording no foothold for the inseots, and over which they cannot crawl owing to the smoothness of the surface of said member. After considerable experimentation, I have found that such a member operates as an absolute deterrent or guard against the passage of inseots, in consequence of which, I desire to lay stress ugon both the form and the material of the member 4, viz: that its surface and form are such as to prevent the inseots from crawling thereover.

The material of the inner or central member 6 is, preferably, of a quality enabling it to seal connection between the same and the member 4 in the grcove 5, and for this purpose T have found that felt, rubber and leather are efiicacious, and in applying the same I crowd or compact the same into the groove 5 of the member 4, as indicated by the heavy indications adjacent the groove 5, Moreover, such materials enable the guard to be properly applied to the leg of the furniture without injuring or engagement between the member 4 and the leg, and fricticnally retain the member in the event casters or other terminal devices are not applied to or formed on the leg. Moreover, the aperture 7 may be of any desired shape, and the material of the member 6 will, when the guard is applied, crowd around, or clcsely cling, to the leg 1 so as to prevent the passage of the inseots between the latter and the member 6.

In the form of my invention shown in Fig. 4:, the member 4: is rectangular in form, so as to provide thereby corners or edges 8 which also act as barriers to the passage of the inseots, it being found by experimentaticn that sharp edge thus presented prevent the insects from turning angles. In addition, the smooth or glazed surfaces of the member 4 operatc as described.

I desire it understood that my invention is not confined to the use of glass for the member 4:, as any material may be used, the surface of which can be made smooth and slippery or glazed, and providing that the character of the surface will not be altered by changes in temperature or atmospheric conditions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

An insect guard comprising a member composed of glass and having a Central Signed my name in the presence of two subape-ture, the wall about the aperture beng scrbng Wtnesses. grooved; n combnaton Wlth a Central attaching dSk-like member of elastic material, FELI BUSH' 5 having its periphery compressed Within Said XVtnesses:

g'oove and having acentral aperture. CHAS. MCC. CHAPMAN,

In testimony, whereof I have hereunto MARIE R. LEAIIY.

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